Google Data Tools

Our mission

Our company’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Data’s huge impact can be surprising — it helps us make better decisions, improves our lives, and drives economic growth.

What we do

We build products that we hope will make the web — and everyone’s experience on the web — better. With all our technologies — from search to Chrome to — our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to find the information you need and get things done.

We provide a variety of tools to help businesses of all kinds succeed on and off the web. These programs form the backbone of our own business; they’ve also enabled entrepreneurs and publishers around the world to grow their own.

We’re also committed to the open web, so we’re involved in various projects to make it easier for developers to contribute to the online ecosystem and move the web forward. Some of our data tools

Large data sets combined with today’s computing power enable us to tackle problems in new and often unexpected ways. We offer a number of tools to help people visualize and explore data that is available online — or even their own data sets. Here are some examples:

Google for Civic Developers: g.co/civicdevelopers We've put together this page of resources to help get anyone hacking on the data released for the National Day of Civic Hacking.

Google Fusion : google.com/fusiontables An experimental web application to gather, visualize, and share larger data tables.

Google Crisis Response: google.org/crisisresponse/ makes critical information more accessible around natural disasters and humanitarian crises such as hurricanes and earthquakes.

Google Public Alerts: google.org/publicalerts A platform to disseminate relevant emergency alerts to users when and where they’re searching for them.

Google Civic Information API: developers.google.com/civic-information/ Allows developers to build applications that display civic information including polling place, early vote location, candidate data, and election official information to users.

Google Public Data Explorer: google.com/publicdata/home Allows users to upload their own data sets for visualization and exploration.

And many more, including:

Prediction API: code.google.com/apis/predict/ A set of algorithms anyone can run to do pattern recognition : code.google.com/appengine/ Our internet computing platform Google BigQuery: developers.google.com/bigquery/ Which allows for interactive analysis of massively large datasets Google Chart Tools: code.google.com/apis/chart/ With protocols to connect to dynamic data in real-time

All these tools rely on open data, often made available by entities at all levels of government. By supporting open data initiatives, policy makers can help make government more transparent and accountable and help improve everyone’s lives.